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The earliest minimum wage laws in the United States were state laws focused on women and children. [25] These laws were struck down by the Supreme Court between 1923 and 1937. [25] The first federal minimum wage law, which exempted large parts of the workforce, was enacted in 1938 and set rates that became obsolete during World War II. [25]
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
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The federal minimum wage has remained stuck at $7.25 since 2009, the longest period without an increase since the Fair Labor Standards Act first established a minimum wage in 1938.
The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 is the current federal minimum wage law of the United States. It was signed into law on May 25, 2007 [ 134 ] as a rider to the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 .
The federal minimum wage in the US hasn’t changed from the hourly rate of $7.25 in over 14 years. But 22 states and 40 cities increased their own minimum wages to ring in the New Year.
The minimum wage increased in January to $17.75 an hour, more than double the $7.25 minimum wage under federal law and higher than any U.S. state. Trump has not said whether he will rescind Biden ...
US map of hourly minimum wages by state and District of Columbia (D.C.) [205] Minimum wage by state by year. In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. [206] The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President ...